I am good with cryonics, but have no confidence that it can work, medically. Medically, as in grown a new body for a repaired brain. However, John may be right on all this and the doubters may be wrong. Could Samiya's theology be correct? I am guessing or wanting to believe, no, because of some of the teachings of Quran, Soonah, and Bukari, push for people to conflict, so as to avoid jahanam, and or, permanent death, and thus, to attain janah (respectively hell and paradise). So thus, I like John's choice as better. It's ethically, a better choice in my opinion. I do like the many, and contradictictory theologies, of professor, Eric Steinhart, at Paterson University. A software engineer before becoming an academic philosopher, and like, Hugo, a big math-head (I always envy math-heads!) and I find Steinhart's 'afterlives' quite good (though not all as they now stand).
Here's a pdf download from Steinhart's Philosophy Compass magazine article. http://ericsteinhart.com/articles/natlife.pdf -----Original Message----- From: John Clark <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Jan 31, 2016 1:41 pm Subject: Re: Cryonics punched cards and the brain On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 Samiya Illias <[email protected]> wrote: > We believe that the quality of that life depends on the beliefs and actions in this life. Actions I can understand but why beliefs? Why on earth would an omniscient being consider holding an unshakable belief even in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence to be a virtue and not a vice ? Give me a good answer to that question and I promise I will start reading the Quran, although I'll have to learn Arabic first. > Do take the time to study the Quran or Torah or start with any scripture you feel more comfortable with. Well, I'm comfortable with " Feynman's Lectures on Physics", will that do? John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
